Photos: 2023 Nebraska legislative session

A slight drop in state tax receipts was not enough to convince the Nebraska Economic Forecasting Advisory Board to adjust its optimistic revenue forecast from four months ago.

The newest version of a bill allowing Nebraska teachers and other school staff to deal physically with violent and disruptive students faced strong opposition.

An amendment to a bill allowing Nebraskans to carry concealed handguns without a permit won support from some law enforcement agencies. But police chiefs in Omaha and Lincoln remain opposed.

Nebraska lawmakers heard hours of testimony Wednesday as they weighed contrasting plans to implement voter identification requirements. 

A Nebraska bill would give mental health professionals the power to initiate emergency protective custody for individuals experiencing a crisis that poses a risk to themselves or others.

Heading into the second half of their session, Nebraska lawmakers named several culture war measures as priorities, guaranteeing plenty of long, emotional debates. 

The Legislature came to a full stop for about 20 minutes Wednesday as one lawmaker attempted to censure another for comparing the state's debate over transgender rights to a genocide.

The Democratic nominee for president has won an electoral vote in Nebraska twice in the last 15 years thanks to the state's unique system for awarding those votes. A bill aims to end that system.

A tax measure that would cut Nebraska's top income tax rates by one-third, while fully exempting Social Security from income tax and offering some child care tax credits, advanced out of the Revenue Committee Thursday. 

The Nebraska Legislature heard arguments Thursday on two proposals that would put abortion rights on the ballot in 2024. 

Nebraska lawmakers last year dedicated $15 million of federal pandemic recovery money to increasing payment rates for foster care, family support, group homes and other child welfare services. 

Nebraska lawmakers gave strong support Monday to a package of property tax changes expected to provide more than $3 billion of relief.

Nebraska collected $92 million less than expected from November through March, catching lawmakers' attention but not causing alarm. Still, April's numbers could prompt shifts in tax and budget plans.

A 12-year dispute over State Patrol trooper salary and retirement benefits has been resolved with a $18.75 million state settlement.

With time ticking down on the session, lawmakers continue to talk about possible changes that might determine the fate of the bill to ban gender-affirming care for individuals under 19. 

Nebraska lawmakers advanced a bill that would require gas stations to offer gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol.

State spending would grow at a 2.3% annual rate under a budget plan advanced by the Appropriations Committee, with more than $703 million left for tax cuts or other uses.  

Nebraska lawmakers will have the same amount of tax revenue as they previously expected as they decide on the state budget and tax cuts, based on the latest forecast of state revenues.

Discussions about LB574, the bill to ban gender-affirming care for Nebraskans under 19, could result in an exemption for people already undergoing such care — but few other major changes.

Nebraska lawmakers advanced 23 bills packaged together into one piece of legislation Tuesday, all of which would make changes in the state's education system. 

Over a year after "boorish, brainless and bizarre" activity rocked the Nebraska Legislature, lawmakers adopted a handful of changes to its workplace harassment policy.

Gov. Jim Pillen's desk is the next stop for the state budget package. Lawmakers passed bills authorizing $10.7 billion in state spending, plus paying for a new prison and a canal in western Nebraska. 

A bill that has stirred session-long turmoil in the Nebraska Legislature and now includes two contentious issues — abortion and transgender health care — will see its final floor debate Friday. 

Nebraska lawmakers passed two packages of legislation Tuesday that address everything from scrap tire grants to expanding broadband coverage in the state.